Re: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

On 19/05/2024 17:03, Paul S Person wrote:

On Sat, 18 May 2024 20:52:40 +0100, Robert Carnegie
<rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote:
 

On 15/05/2024 17:52, Paul S Person wrote: >>> Something similar happened with a film I say decades later.

>
But the /wierdest/ problem I ever saw -- or, rather, didn't see -- was
when the soundtrack played but there was no picture. Of course, since
this was an "art film", it seemed perfectly possible that that was the
intended experience. When caught, we heard the film being rewound and
then it started again.

>
Derek Jarman's _Blue_?  :-)
>
A blank blue screen throughout.  The narrative
is mostly about being gay in London, and getting
AIDS, so you may have not seen it at the
Base Theater.

 No, this was later, in a 10-plex that later became a Sundance theater
and then was sold. (Sundance installed large seats with cupholders,
introduced reserved -- ie, assigned -- seating, and obtained a liquor
license so you had to be 21 to see a PG-13 film. Wierd.) It is,
however, nice to know that my suspicion that the blank screen was
intentional was not entirely unrealistic.
 The film I was referring to was about Mexicans being hired to
manipulate what RAH called "Waldoes" across the border in USA
construction sites. At last, Mexican labor without the Mexican! P

So is this science fiction or...  You said art film.
So, satire?
In real life, we have robots on production
Lines, in farming now I think, but not quite
on construction sites.  The trade prefers safety
violations committed by human machine operators
who are physically present.

The plot was about the monetization of water by a Greedy Corporation (one
of D's heroes, no doubt) who sequestered all the water available to
the protagonist's home town, held the town up for ransom, and starting
killing whoever resisted. The ending was pretty much what you would
expect.

A remote-manipulated robot becomes U.S. President
(again), and the tables are turned?
A lot depends on the budget.  But wasn't
_Terminator_ pretty cheap?

ObSF: when _Star Trek III_ starts out tiny and
monochrome.

 IIRC, /Windjammer/ started out small as well.